TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s what the Los Angeles-based extended reality technology developer Talespin did — and it just raised $15 million to grow its business. . We’ve been incredibly impressed with Talespin ’s technology, leadership team and vision to transform the workplace through XR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Formalize the use of tools and information technology. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Status of the solution.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2021

In reality, resource constraints should be seen by startups a competitive advantage, by forcing them to develop new markets, and to think differently and act differently than existing players. Using the solution technology that you already have, in new ways, takes fewer resources than inventing or sourcing new technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Know your customers intimately. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

This momentum is what you need for enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as for others to see you as a business leader. Without a store of this psychological capital, your performance and leadership will wane, and your satisfaction will dwindle. Build your character and reputation with personal values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

For example, Mark McClain, cofounder and CEO of SailPoint Technologies , created an employee growth culture resulting in growth of forty percent a year, with more than $100 million in revenues. Maintaining business momentum requires constant analysis and vigilance for market and technology changes, as well an internal focus on optimization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. All need to know who will be there and what you expect. Contact key vendors and existing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

This required ability is aided by some supportive personal attributes, such as confidence, initiative, problem solving, and determination, but the basic learning principles must include the following: Satisfaction will come from learning something new every day. This is a key part of enjoying the journey, as well as the destination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. With today’s technology, make sure they get a monthly newsletter, a reminder care for a tune-up, or a holiday greeting card personalized just for them. Herein lies an opportunity for startups to beat the big guys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The best startups find a way to drive the market with their technology, rather than push their new technology-driven ‘solution’ on the marketplace. An example of market-driven technology is the basic automobile, but combining a car with an airplane is technology looking for a market. Analyze how competition will react.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. These also will keep you better informed on new technologies, trends, and likely competitors. They won’t find you. Secure outside expansion funding through investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Wrench is one of a growing number of companies that are using technology to adapt what had previously been infrastructure-heavy services closer to a more consumer-friendly, convenient business model. The company’s round was led by Vulcan Capital with additional participation from Madrona Venture Group, Tenaya Capital and Marubeni Corp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Formalize the use of tools and information technology. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. Of course, keeping up with the technology on tools is a never-ending task, and it costs money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

With the multiple technologies of team videos, smartphones, email, and the pervasive Internet facilitating total communication, there is no need for the delay and information loss of multiple hierarchy levels in business. Discourage internal team competition and silos. You will find improved morale and satisfaction all around as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. Entrepreneurs relish change and new technology, which lead to new sales. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage. Think like your ideal customer seeking value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. Discipline is required to continually track results, return on investment, and customer satisfaction. A strategy of speedy execution is required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Entrepreneurs and business executives seem to be even more focused on their technology than the rest of us, and less inclined to listen to the voice of the customer, even if they remember to ask. Customers want and expect two-way personal relationships with their providers, and they know that the technology now allows for this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Most experts agree that the key to worker productivity, decision making, and satisfaction, is raising their level of engagement from the currently low thirty percent range. Office jobs and communication technology have evolved. Giving them a feeling of self-empowered decisions with fewer managers is key to this move.

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Outsource Training Organization Social Media 133

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Today’s complex environments requires the use of innovative systems and technology for timely and reliable feedback from customers and colleagues. Business and customer satisfaction data measurements are required, in addition to subjective assessments of team progress, tradeoffs, and investment decisions.

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Metrics 114

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

This required ability is aided by some supportive personal attributes, such as confidence, initiative, problem solving, and determination, but the basic learning principles must include the following: Satisfaction will come from learning something new every day. This is a key part of enjoying the journey, as well as the destination.

Social Media 127

Social Media Startup Education Entrepreneur 127

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Both want personal satisfaction and financial success. Every business depends on customers to thrive, and every employee role has some correlation to customer satisfaction. Entrepreneurs see change and new technology as the way to attract more customers, and improve sales and profitability. In fact, U.S.

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Entrepreneur Satisfaction Customer Custom 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

When innovations are driven by increased customer value and satisfaction, business growth will come naturally from repeat business, new customers, and referrals. Nice to have” features or a ten percent cost advantage is not convincing or competitive these days. Focus on translating new technology into solutions.

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Satisfaction Startup Competition Customer 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2020

Entrepreneurs and business executives seem to be even more focused on their technology than the rest of us, and less inclined to listen to the voice of the customer, even if they remember to ask. Customers want and expect two-way personal relationships with their providers, and they know that the technology now allows for this.

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Customer Custom Activity Social Network 128

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2013

In reality, the business world gets tougher every day, with new entrants, new technology, and competitors more easily entering the fray from around the globe. Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Way back in 1979, Michael E. Either way you lose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This momentum is what you need for enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as for others to see you as a business leader. Without a store of this psychological capital, your performance and leadership will wane, and your satisfaction will dwindle. Build your character and reputation with personal values.

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Coach Satisfaction Ideas Entrepreneur 70

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2020

In her classic book, “ Rookie Smarts ,” Liz Wiseman, one of the top thought leaders in business, amplifies this point as it relates to hiring and cultivating the curious, flexible, youthful mindset in keeping a mature company young and competitive, as well as keeping experienced employees more productive.

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Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction Ideas 122

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. Discipline is required to continually track results, return on investment, and customer satisfaction. A strategy of speedy execution is required.

Tips 126

Tips Technical Review Organization Social Media 126

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Technologists, in particular, who spend most of their time working in the business, rather than on it, still harbor several myths that contribute to their frequent demise: "A great technology will lead a successful business." In fact, both customers and investors often avoid the perceived high risk of innovative technology pitches.

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Technical Review Startup Social Media Competition 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Formalize the use of tools and information technology. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

In reality, resource constraints should be seen by startups a competitive advantage, by forcing them to develop new markets, and to think differently and act differently than existing players. Using the solution technology that you already have, in new ways, takes fewer resources than inventing or sourcing new technologies.

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Resource Entrepreneur Competition Startup 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Personal friendships will improve communications and trust, and will definitely improve your personal satisfaction and life balance, between work and play. Even with all our technology, business is still people-to-people. Work to make your ability to manage relationships your sustainable competitive advantage.

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